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Definition: Drench |
DrenchVerb1. Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor.". 2. Force (animals) to drink. 3. Permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood". 4. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drench" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: DrenchSynonyms: douse (v), dowse (v), imbrue (v), soak (v), sop (v), souse (v), swamp (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp. |
Moisture | Verb: moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench. (water). |
Redundancy | Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize. |
Remedy | Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure. |
River | Pour; pour out. (discharge); shower down, irrigate, drench. (wet); spill, splash. |
Water | Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drench |
| English words defined with "drench": Arrose ♦ Baigne, Bedrench, Bewash, Bowssen ♦ Dreint, Drencher, Drengage, Dreynt ♦ Indrench, Insteep ♦ Overdrown ♦ swamp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drench": CAMP TENDER ♦ LIVESTOCK-YARD ATTENDANT ♦ MALT ROASTER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drench": Bowssen ♦ Drengage ♦ Indrench ♦ Overdrown. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | First time in years, to drench you skin with lovers' rosy stain (A View to a Kill; performing artist: Duran Duran) Calm the storms that drench my eyes (Flood; performing artist: Jars Of Clay) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Swish; swirl; flush; cleanse; douche; drench; eject; expel; flood; hose; inundate; rinse; swab; wash. | | Shower; rainfall; drench; wet; cascade; cascading; . |
| Water; car wash; garden hose; bathe; bespatter; broadcast; dabble; dash; douse; drench; drown; get wet; moisten; paddle; plash; plunge; shower; slop; slosh; soak; sop; spatter; splatter; spray; spread; sprinkle; squirt; squirt; strew; throw; wade; wallow. | | Swish; swirl; flush; cleanse; douche; drench; eject; expel; flood; hose; inundate; rinse; swab; wash. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Amos Bronson Alcott | Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Others may drench your clothes. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Drench" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 41.67% of the time. "Drench" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 41.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "drench": drench in blood. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "drench": Horse-drench. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
body drench | 78 |
body drench lotion | 22 |
drench wench | 10 |
cum drench | 6 |
body drench tanning lotion | 6 |
body drench product | 5 |
drench shower | 3 |
drench | 2 |
drench sperm | 2 |
clothes drench drip pool soak wet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drench"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dozë ilaçi (dose), qullje, qull (dabby, get wet, gruel, mash, porridge, saturate, soak, soppy, wet), lagie (souse), lag (dabble, damp, dampen, douse, get wet, moisten, soak, souse, wash, wet), i jap ilaç (physic), bëj qull. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ما ينقع, ما يبلل, نقع (assuage, impregnate, impregnation, infuse, mashing, saturate, saturation, slake, soak, souse, steep, temper, wash, water), جرعة من, جرعة (dosage, dose, drink, gulp, measure, mouthful, nip, potion, pull, swallow), أشبع (appease, assuage, charge, feed, flood, full, gratify, please, requite, sate, satiate, saturate, slake, soak, steep), بلل (bathe, bedew, dabble, damp, dampness, moisten, moistening, soaking, sodden, wet, wetness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | накисвам (macerate, saturate, soak, sodden, souse, steep), намокряне (damping), намокрям (damp, moisten, slosh, wet), напоявам (imbue, impregnate, irrigate, penetrate, saturate, soak, water), проливен дъжд (cataract, drencher, pelt, pour, soaker), подгизвам (become damp, grow wet, waterlog), измокряне, измокрям (daggle, splash), доза лекарство. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 透湿 (Drenched), 使濕透 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmáèet, promoèit (saturate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نوشانیدن (Dram, Drink), خیساندن (Imbibe, Poach, Soak, Sop, Steep), اب دادن (Water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tremper (drown), se faire saucer, mouiller, médicament (drug), infuser (draw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | durchnässen (saturate, seep through, soak, sodden, to soak, to sodden), tränken (imbue, impregnate, saturate, soak, water), Regenguss (downpour), guss (cast, casting, cloudburst, downpour, founding, frosting, glaze, gush, icing, molding, stream). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μουσκεύω (macerate, ret, saturate, soak, steep, wet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשרות (immerse, saturate, soak, sop, souse, steep), ל"רטיב ל'מרי (saturate, soak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | állati orvosság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | hujan lebat (downpour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inzuppare (dip, Dunk, get soaked, saturate, soak, souse, wet), imbevere (imbue, soak, waterlog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 浸す (to dip, to drench, to soak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひたす (to dip, to drench, to soak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | purgaid (black draught, catharsis, purge), fliughey (moisten, rainfall, slake, soak, souse, wet), cur purgaid da. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enchdray dose (admixture, dosage, dose, drop, helping, potion, share), desanimar (chill, collapse, damp, deject, depress, despair, despond, discount, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, flatten, quail, throw cold water on, unman, unnerve), umedecer (dabble, damp, dampen, dew, liquor, moisten, wash), poção, chuvada, abafar (blanket, burke, choke, cover up, cushion, damp, drown, hugger-mugger, hush up, muffle, pilfer, quell, smother, steal the show, stifle, suffocate, suppress, swelter). (various references) dozã de medicament, uda (bedew, damp, dip, douse, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, steep, wash, water, wet), ploaie torenţialã (downfall, downpour, drencher, pelter, shower, torrent), muia o piele, afunda (deepen, depress, dip, disappear, dissolve, dive, duck, immerse, sink, soak, submerge), administra un medicament (dose out, drug), înmuia (dabble, dip, immerse, mellow, melt, poach, relent, ret, soak, soften, steep, unbend). (various references) вымочить (soak), ливень (cloudburst, cloud-burst, down pour, downfall, downpour, drencher, hailstorm, pour, rainfall, rainstorm, shower, thundershower), промочить (soak, wet out, wet throughly), промокание, доза лекарства. (various references) posuti (besprinkle, sprinkle, strew), pokvasiti, pljusak (downfall, downpour, drencher, rain, rainstorm, shower, soaker), oblivati (overspread), natopiti (imbrue, saturate, soak, steep, wash, wet), natapanje (maceration, soaking), kvašenje (maceration, soaking). (various references) empapar (imbue, impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate, soak, soak up, souse, steep). (various references) genomdränka (imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, saturate, soak). (various references) ทำให้เปียกโชก. (various references) zorla içirilen ilaç, sağanak (down pour, downpour, flurry, hail, heavy shower, rainfall, shower, soak, soaker, spate, spatter, squall, torrent, waterspout), sırılsıklam etmek (saturate, wet through), sırılsıklam etme, ilaç içirmek, ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, douse, dowse, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, soak, sop, souse, sprinkle, steep, swim, water, wet), ıslatma (damping, soak, soakage, steep, wetting). (various references) змочувати (dabble, damp), злива (cannonade, cloud-burst, deluge, downfall, drencher, floodwaters, gush, hail, pour, scat, shower, soaker, spate), промокання (blotting), пормочувати. (various references) liều thuốc độc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inebria, inebriaberis, inebriabitur, inebriabo, inebriabuntur, inebriamini, inebrians, inebriantem, inebriare, inebriari, inebriasti, inebriat, inebriate, inebriati, inebriatus, inebriavi, inebriavit, inebriemur, inebriemus, insaturabilia, saturaberis, saturabimini, saturabitur, saturabo, saturabunt, saturabuntur, saturamini, saturare, saturaremur, saturari, saturata, saturatae, saturati, saturatur, saturatus, saturavi, saturavit, saturemus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | begeotan, besteman, beswillan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drench": drenched, drencher, drenchers, drenches, drenching. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "drench": bedrench. (additional references) | |
Words containing "drench": bedrenched, bedrenches, bedrenching. (additional references) | |
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"Drench" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daraich, Darroch, dech, Derecho, Derynck, Dranich, dreenk, dreich, dren, drencn, drenk, Drent, Drenth, driech, Drynoch, frynych, Rench, Rensch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drench" (pronounced dre"nkh) |
| 4 | -r e" n kh | entrench, french, retrench, trench, wrench. |
| 3 | -e" n kh | bench, clench, quench, stench, tench. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-n-r" | |
-2 letters: herd, hern, nerd, rend. | |
-3 letters: den, edh, end, ern, hen, her, rec, red. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, eh, en, er, he, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-n-r" | |
+1 letter: churned, endarch, ranched. | |
+2 letters: anchored, bedrench, branched, brunched, chandler, children, cranched, crunched, drenched, drencher, drenches, endarchy, enriched, frenched, inarched, richened, trenched, wrenched. | |
+3 letters: adherence, archfiend, chagrined, chandlers, chandlery, chlordane, chondrite, chondrule, chuntered, coinhered, craunched, drenchers, drenching, hindrance, rechanged, scrunched, threnodic, uncharged, uncharted, unreached. | |
+4 letters: achondrite, adherences, archdeacon, archfiends, backhander, bedrenched, bedrenches, chagrinned, chairmaned, chandelier, chaperoned, chargehand, chlordanes, chondrites, chondrules, chowdering, christened, chronicled, coanchored, comprehend, decahedron, echinoderm, enchiridia, enciphered, encroached, endarchies, entrenched, franchised, hindrances, intrenched, merchanted, octahedron, prepunched, rebranched, relaunched, retrenched, scherzando, unanchored, unbranched, unbreeched, unchurched, unenriched. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 65 6E 63 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. . -. -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r e n c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0065 006E 0063 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388471806974 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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